Bug 924269 - I choose to auto-report a problem and it is not reported
Summary: I choose to auto-report a problem and it is not reported
Keywords:
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abrt
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michal Srb
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-21 13:10 UTC by Kamil Páral
Modified: 2024-08-28 14:02 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
bug demonstration video (893.75 KB, video/ogg)
2013-03-21 13:10 UTC, Kamil Páral
no flags Details
journalctl output (134.45 KB, text/plain)
2013-03-21 13:10 UTC, Kamil Páral
no flags Details


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 924271 0 unspecified CLOSED Bug reporting fails and crashes when trying to see details 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

Internal Links: 924271

Description Kamil Páral 2013-03-21 13:10:13 UTC
Created attachment 713834 [details]
bug demonstration video

Description of problem:
I just booted F19 Alpha TC1. I see abrt telling me to report a bug. I choose to auto-report everything in the future. When I open ABRT GUI, the problem is marked as not reported. I expect the problem to be reported, because I've confirmed all previous questions.

I've seen this problem several times now, in various situations. This is the first time I managed to report it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
abrt-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-addon-ccpp-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-addon-python-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-addon-vmcore-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-addon-xorg-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-dbus-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-desktop-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-gui-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-libs-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-plugin-bodhi-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64
abrt-retrace-client-2.1.2-1.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
easily in my VM with Alpha TC1, I see the kernel problem quite often

Steps to Reproduce:
1. hit Report problem
2. say Yes for auto-reporting
3. open ABRT GUI and select the problem, it says Reported: No.

Comment 1 Kamil Páral 2013-03-21 13:10:37 UTC
Created attachment 713835 [details]
journalctl output

Comment 2 Kamil Páral 2013-03-21 13:14:19 UTC
See bug 924271 for a followup problem. It might be related, or not.

Comment 3 Jakub Filak 2013-03-21 19:37:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> See bug 924271 for a followup problem. It might be related, or not.

Thank you for all your effort. The second bug helped me to figure out what happend. The root cause is in the super simple reporting mode which is known as Shortened Reporting and which is enabled by default in GNOME. The auto-report runs the 'report_uReport' event which failed in your case. You can see the failure in the second video attached to the second bug. If the ShortenenedReporting mode is enabled and if the reporting is started from the notification bubble, ABRT doesn't show any error messages. So, it looks like that the problem has been reported but it wasn't. The ShortenedReporting mode is a result of an attempt to make bug reporting less frustrating for common users.

The Shortened Reporting can be enabled or disabled by adding either 'ShortenedReporting = "yes"' or 'ShortenedReporting = "no"' line to $HOME/.config/abrt/settings/abrt-applet.conf

Comment 4 Kamil Páral 2013-03-22 08:34:02 UTC
I see. So this is not really a bug, it's just a consequence of libreport (or whatever) crashing. You might want to improve the situation a bit, but overall, this can be closed, no?

The obvious idea is to show another bubble popup "Shortened reporting failed, please report manually [Report]" if shortened reporting fails. But I'm not sure it's the best idea, it adds another type of popups, another complexity.

A very small improvement that occurred to me is that you could display "Reported: Failed" instead of "Reported: No" in the bug details window. That would make absolutely clear that ABRT tried to report it, but it didn't work, instead of creating confusion as it was in my case. It could also display text "Please report manually" or similar. That could be easy to implement. What do you think?

Comment 5 Jakub Filak 2013-03-22 13:43:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
Definitely, it needs some improvement. The obvious idea you proposed above doesn't fit into the reporting simplification effort but I will implement the small improvements. So, I'm not closing this ticket yet.

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